| cat | | |
| n. (animal) | 1. cat, true cat | feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats. |
| ~ felid, feline | any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws. |
| ~ domestic cat, felis catus, felis domesticus, house cat | any domesticated member of the genus Felis. |
| ~ wildcat | any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild. |
| n. (person) | 2. bozo, cat, guy, hombre | an informal term for a youth or man.; "a nice guy"; "the guy's only doing it for some doll" |
| ~ adult male, man | an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman).; "there were two women and six men on the bus" |
| ~ sod | an informal British term for a youth or man.; "the poor sod couldn't even buy a drink" |
| n. (person) | 3. cat | a spiteful woman gossip.; "what a cat she is!" |
| ~ gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, gossip | a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others. |
| ~ adult female, woman | an adult female person (as opposed to a man).; "the woman kept house while the man hunted" |
| n. (artifact) | 4. african tea, arabian tea, cat, kat, khat, qat, quat | the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant.; "in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults" |
| ~ excitant, stimulant drug, stimulant | a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process. |
| n. (artifact) | 5. cat, cat-o'-nine-tails | a whip with nine knotted cords.; "British sailors feared the cat" |
| ~ whip | an instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping. |
| n. (artifact) | 6. cat, caterpillar | a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work. |
| ~ tracked vehicle | a self-propelled vehicle that moves on tracks. |
| n. (animal) | 7. big cat, cat | any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild. |
| ~ family felidae, felidae | cats; wildcats; lions; leopards; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers. |
| ~ felid, feline | any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws. |
| ~ panthera pardus, leopard | large feline of African and Asian forests usually having a tawny coat with black spots. |
| ~ panthera uncia, snow leopard, ounce | large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur. |
| ~ felis onca, jaguar, panther, panthera onca | a large spotted feline of tropical America similar to the leopard; in some classifications considered a member of the genus Felis. |
| ~ king of beasts, lion, panthera leo | large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male. |
| ~ panthera tigris, tiger | large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered. |
| ~ liger | offspring of a male lion and a female tiger. |
| ~ tiglon, tigon | offspring of a male tiger and a female lion. |
| ~ acinonyx jubatus, cheetah, chetah | long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game. |
| ~ saber-toothed tiger, sabertooth | any of many extinct cats of the Old and New Worlds having long swordlike upper canine teeth; from the Oligocene through the Pleistocene. |
| n. (act) | 8. cat, computed axial tomography, computed tomography, computerized axial tomography, computerized tomography, ct | a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross-sectional scans along a single axis. |
| ~ x-raying, x-radiation | obtaining images by the use of X rays. |
| v. (contact) | 9. cat | beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails. |
| ~ flog, lash, lather, trounce, welt, whip, slash, strap | beat severely with a whip or rod.; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" |
| v. (body) | 10. barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up | eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth.; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" |
| ~ egest, excrete, eliminate, pass | eliminate from the body.; "Pass a kidney stone" |
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